this is a map of the racial breakdown of the LA county census tracts from 1940 through 2000. I'm also in the process of making one for the 2010 census too, FWIW.

Do you have any data on non-Mexican Hispanics? Are there Salvadoran or Peruvian, etc. areas?

nope, its just based off of DRA.

This is the Salvadoran population (2006-2010 ACS) Thresholds are 0-500, 500-1000, 1000+, I cut off the southern part just a bit to get more of the San Fernando Valley.

So concentrations south of downtown, but little towards the east. There is a tiny bit toward the SE (Southgate, Cudahy, Huntington Park). There is also a concentration in Palmdale, with lesser numbers in Santa Clarita and Lancaster.

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And here is for the Guatemalan population. A bit more concentrated, with the dark green area south of downtown bounded by Alvarado and Union, Beverly Blvd and W 6th St. This doesn't quite overlay the Salvadoran map. There is relatively speaking, a concentration in Palmdale, but nowhere near the magnitude of the Salvadoran population. In the San Fernando Valley, it appears to be a bit more of a north-south axis, than an east-west axis.

This is the Salvadoran population (2006-2010 ACS) Thresholds are 0-500, 500-1000, 1000+, I cut off the southern part just a bit to get more of the San Fernando Valley.

So concentrations south of downtown, but little towards the east. There is a tiny bit toward the SE (Southgate, Cudahy, Huntington Park). There is also a concentration in Palmdale, with lesser numbers in Santa Clarita and Lancaster.

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And here is for the Guatemalan population. A bit more concentrated, with the dark green area south of downtown bounded by Alvarado and Union, Beverly Blvd and W 6th St. This doesn't quite overlay the Salvadoran map. There is relatively speaking, a concentration in Palmdale, but nowhere near the magnitude of the Salvadoran population. In the San Fernando Valley, it appears to be a bit more of a north-south axis, than an east-west axis.

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So the Central Americans are all moving to places where the blacks don't want to live anymore?

So the Central Americans are all moving to places where the blacks don't want to live anymore?

Areas where people don't want to live have low rents which are attractive to people who don't have high income. They also go where they might find work in construction - I assume that is the reason for the concentration in Palmdale.

Since Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigration was somewhat later than Mexican immigration, they may have tended to go where there was already Spanish speakers. One reason that Central Americans may have not gone east is that many of those areas have large numbers of Asian immigrants. There are some census tracts that are generally Hispanic, with Mexicans, and Central Americans from many countries, but with Salvadorans dominant, some that are Central American dominant, usually Salvadoran dominant but, sometimes Guatemalan.

It wouldn't surprise me if some of the Guatemalan-dominant areas had significant numbers of non-Spanish speakers (or perhaps as a second language). Census Tract 1916.10 has the largest Central American to Hispanic ratio among census tracts with a Hispanic majority, and a bare Central American majority 50.3%.

So the Central Americans are all moving to places where the blacks don't want to live anymore?

Areas where people don't want to live have low rents which are attractive to people who don't have high income. They also go where they might find work in construction - I assume that is the reason for the concentration in Palmdale.

You get minorities (not just Hispanics, Blacks as well) in the new, non-posh exurbs in LA. Construction no doubt is a part of it, but it's also where people went who wanted to buy a plot of their own and couldn't afford it, but during the housing bubble could get a loan anyways... but only so far out that things get cheaper again. See also, the Victor Valley and certain places in Riverside County.

I wonder what any of the longtimers of the area think of the map (paging Torie)

Great maps, and I have observed the change with my own eyes over time. Heck, my high school was in Van Nuys, and when I graduated in 1969, my class was but maybe 10% Hispanic (its zone was about one third in upper middle class Encino, and two thirds in the lower middle class portion of Van Nuys).

here's one question:does anyone know if certain areas have a predisposition to white flight. It seems that looking at the map, the areas in LA that have experienced white flight are all in the areas you'd expect, but only in hindsight.

here's one question:does anyone know if certain areas have a predisposition to white flight. It seems that looking at the map, the areas in LA that have experienced white flight are all in the areas you'd expect, but only in hindsight.

Can you expand a little more? What areas did you "expect" white flight to happen? I think a lot of it has to do with class and real estate prices.

Yes, the "gateway cities" have seen a lot of white flight with anglos (NHW whatever) moving out and Hispanics moving in. A lot of those people have actually just moved out of California. Fair amount of white flight in the San gabriel valley too, no?

"Anglo" here is a term of art here, just like WASP. I am a WASP, while atheist (I do happen to be Anglo, but some WASPS are not even that - they're German or whatever). Language is complicated. Who knew?

"Anglo" here is a term of art here, just like WASP. I am a WASP, while atheist (I do happen to be Anglo, but some WASPS are not even that - they're German or whatever). Language is complicated. Who knew?